Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial PerspectiveDonka Minkova, Robert P. Stockwell The 19 papers in this volume are a selection from a UCLA conference intended to take stock of the state of the field at the beginning of the new millenium and to stimulate research in English Historical Linguistics. The authors are predominantly U.S. scholars. The fields represented include morphosyntax and semantics, grammaticalization, discourse analysis, dialectology, lexicography, the diachronic study of code-switching, phonology and metrics. Two sample articles can be downloaded for free from our website. |
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Mixedlanguage texts as data and evidence in English historical | 51 |
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a-verses adverb analysis articulation back vowel Beowulf century Chaucer clauses code-switching consonant constituent construction context contrast coronal dialectology dialects Dictionary diphthongs discourse discussed early Middle English Early Modern English English Language English perfect etymology evidence example finite verb forms French frequency function Germanic Grammar grammaticalization guistics historical linguistics history of English iambic pentameter interpretation Kemenade Kiparsky Kurath Lass Latin lexical lexical diffusion lish macaronic meaning medieval meter metrists Middle English Minkova Modern Standard English Mouton de Gruyter Neogrammarian nominal noun occur Old English origin Oxford paper past perfect pattern phonetic phonological poems poetry poets position possible pragmatic pron+self pronouns pronunciation prose result retroflex rhyme semantic change sentence Shakespeare simplex sound change speakers speech spelling Stockwell stressed syllables suggests switching syntactic syntax theory tion traditional Traugott trill trochees unstressed variation verse Vowel Shift VV compound word order Youmans